Voetius: the honor is human and civil; one commonwealth of pilgrims and those in the homeland

Voetius denies that honor of holy angels and people is religious cult or servitude; it is human and civil.

Against Bellarmine he notes that the Saints were human and, with the angels, fellow-citizens who share one commonwealth with us.

Bellarmine mixes the city of nature with the city of grace.

Pilgrims and those already home are one people, so honor paid to heavenly citizens is still civil, though higher in degree.

Latin

XIV. Similia docet Voetius in Thesibus Theologicis. Ubi postquam posuit honorem, qui Sanctis Angelis & hominibus debetur, minime dici debere cultum Religiosum, aut servitutis, cum tantum sit cultus humanus ac civilis, immediate subjungit. Ridicula quidem Bellarmino haec appellatio videtur, sed immerito; quia & Sancti illi homines fuerunt, & una cum Angelis συμπολῖται, teste Apostolo, qui eos docet commune nobiscum πολιτευμα habere. Sed confundit Bellarminus civitatem saecularem & Ecclesiasticam, quarum illa naturae, haec gratiae est. Nam non minus hujus quam illius ratione cives unius civitatis, una Respublica, unus populus dicimur. Pars quidem in patria est, pars a patria peregrinatur, ut Apostolus loquitur; sed quantumvis illi a nobis, nos ab illis absumus, tamen & illi inter se, & nos inter nos praesentes sumus, & utrisque praesens Deus in Filio per Spiritum Sanctum. Quare cum nihil obstet quominus unius civitatis cives dicamur, nec causa quicquam erit quominus aeque civilis honor dicatur qui civibus caelestibus exhibetur, quam qui civibus terrenis: nam gradu quidem honores isti differunt, sed uterque est πολιτικός. Disput. 7. thesi 47. & seqq.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

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